Is the Pen Mightier than the Mouse?
Last month’s column covered the Windows Creators update, and although there was a fair amount of detail on the Surface Dial, I mentioned Pen...
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Last month’s column covered the Windows Creators update, and although there was a fair amount of detail on the Surface Dial, I mentioned Pen...
Although concerns about Apple’s commitment to pro-level creators are likely overblown—Apple probably has a few tricks up its sleeve for 2018—Microsoft is doing a...
Since its introduction, the Mac’s share of the pro audio market has been hugely disproportionate to its general market share. It upended the Amiga—at...
Although Apple wasn’t at NAMM, it chose that time slot to introduce Logic Pro X 10.3. And in typical Apple fashion, it embodied three...
NAMM has been making an effort to get pro audio more involved in the show, and the 2017 NAMM convention had more bait than...
When plugins first appeared, the goal was often to provide virtual equivalents of hardware devices—similarly to how CGI originally reproduced reality less expensively. But...
Let’s salute the unsung hero of modern recording software: test and measurement. In the days of tape, your test gear was VU meters that...
Here’s an interesting workforce statistic: Far more jobs are lost to robots than to companies sending jobs overseas. But of course, as recording engineers,...
It’s been said the only survivors of a nuclear war would be cockroaches and Cher’s career…but then there’s the Anderton Awards, "honoring" the...
With a few exceptions, most recent DAW changes have been incremental: We haven’t seen huge breakthroughs like when Opcode’s Vision merged hard disk audio...
When multitrack tape recording progressed beyond a few tracks, a new phrase was added to the recording lexicon: “Fix it in the mix,��...
As we become ever-more dependent on computers, we increasingly run the risk of being blindsided by our tools.
Yes, these are challenging times—and times that are difficult to quantify.
It seems like only yesterday we covered changes in subscription software—last March, to be exact. But, in “computer years,” six months can be an...
One of the big surprises at Summer NAMM was Microsoft’s courtship of the audio industry, with both a general overview in the Davidson Ballroom,...
For decades, mastering was considered an arcane, difficult art capable of being mastered (sorry about the pun) only by those with Jedi-level skill sets.
The biggest news in Frankfurt was the Messe hierarchy shakeup and subsequent schedule changes.
Did you get your questionnaire from Apple and Microsoft about what audio/video-oriented features you wanted in their latest operating systems? Neither did I, so...
This column covered the subscription model in June 2013—but a lot has happened since then, and now our industry has followed Adobe’s lead.
Auto-Tune hit the world in 1997, and Antares has continued to update its software since then.
It was a cliffhanger: With the founder of the audio industry’s only virtual awards show absent due to pressing family concerns, the Anderton Awards...
The late John Simonton, PAIA Electronics’ founder, was a visionary—and I don’t use that word often.
Many people maintain that DAWs have evolved to being much the same— they all cut, paste, copy, import, export, etc.
In our computer-based world, every now and then, there’s a wrenching transition.
The most valuable part of any computer is its data—and the amount of data being generated by the modern studio continues to increase.
The Anderton Awards, the virtual awards ceremony that hits AES every year like a 24-hour intestinal flu, got off to a great start!
It’s clear that music distribution is increasingly about downloads and streaming (iTunes is the top US music retailer), which is certainly convenient—with a decent...
The backdrop: a hotly-contested conflict of national importance, with mud-slinging partisans on both sides going over the top with condemnation and praise for their...
The March column covered the age of specialization in DAWs, and how more programs are taking a different tack rather than trying to be...
In last issue’s Software Tech, we covered the iPad takeover of the Winter 2012 NAMM show, but there were many other developments with major...
Here’s the lead sentence for last year’s Winter NAMM show column: “In my April 2010 column written after the debut of Apple’s iPad, I...
Apple has ditched Logic Express and SoundTrack Pro, put Logic Pro 9 in the App store as download-only for $199.99, and priced MainStage 2...
Even with the announcement that the Anderton Awards would proceed as planned (despite that little misunderstanding last year with celebrity presenter Kim Jong Il...
In my April 2010 column written after the debut of Apple’s iPad, I wrote, “The age of desktop dominance is over, which has major...